Denis Glod

A struggling writer in 1930s Soviet Moscow finds his life transformed when a mysterious professor arrives with his bizarre entourage, including a wisecracking trickster, a deadly assassin, a vampire maid, and a giant talking black cat, turning the city upside down while exposing the hypocrisy of those in power.

What if reality is not what it seems? On a winter night, a taxi driver picks up a silent stranger and drives her along an empty road. Accompanied by H. P. Lovecraft's Beyond the Wall of Sleep, the familiar world begins to fracture — and something ancient surfaces through its fabric.

The boy Igor receives a dog as a gift for his birthday and runs away from home with it. But now the two of them must save Igor's father, an astronaut, from death.